A fter a rash of malware in the Arch User Repository (AUR), one AUR packaging system, Chaotic-AUR, is in response taking ...

Hysteria is contagious online. One person's worry becomes another's certainty, and that becomes a social media battle cry — ...

Russian hackers known as Curly COMrades have been seen hiding their malware in Linux-based virtual machines (VM) deployed on ...

Intezer Labs security researchers have identified a sophisticated new malware that targets Linux devices. OrBit is rather nasty and can hide its presence in network activity by manipulating logs. The ...

"By isolating the malware and its execution environment within a VM, the attackers effectively bypassed many traditional host ...

Ransomware hackers have been spotted running Linux encryptors in Windows in a bid to avoid detection by security tools, ...

A survey of 500 Linux developers carried out by Evans Data, a research company, and published last week, found that 78 percent of them claimed never to have been hacked. Of the 22 percent that had ...

I have an odd question. There's a corel linux server on my college campus. I port sniffed it and it said port 6000 was open and it was infected with "the tHing 1.6", a trojan horse virus. After doing ...

The hacker who created a widely reported cross-platform virus that could affect both Windows and Linux PCs may have inadvertently done some free bug testing for the Linux operating system. On ...

Linus Torvalds has updated the Linux kernel to fix a bug brought to light by a recent computer virus, according to reports published on Wednesday. The proof-of-concept virus was submitted to Russian ...

Users and resellers of RAV AntiVirus, popular especially on Linux platforms, are in limbo after Microsoft Corp. announced plans to buy the RAV technology from Romania’s GeCAD Software Srl. The RAV ...